Overhead gear-driven spindle mechanism for spinning and like machines



Dec. 27, 1927.

- o. LAMBERT ovmmmn GEAR DRIVEN SPINDLE MECHANISM FOR SPINNING AND LIKE MACHINES Filed Avril '7, 1927 lnuemorr A7 Qamberl' may Patented Dec. 27, 1927. i 1,5543% UNITED STATES PATENT orrics.

OSWALD LAMBERT, F TAMISE, BELGIUM, ASSIGNOB TO JAMES F. LOW & COMPANY,

. LIMITED, OF MONIFIETH, SCOTLAND.

OVERHEAD GEAR-DRIVEN SPINDLE MECHANISM FOR SPINNING AND LIKE MA- CHINES.

Application filed April 7, 1927, Serial No. 181,850, and in Great Britain May 7,1926.

This invention relates to spinning, twistplunger T the fibre nose of which comes ing and like frames, particularly for the .into contact with the lower portion of the cotton, jute, hemp. and flax spinning and member C and thus stops the rotation of twisting industries. the spindle.

5 The invention comprises an overhead gear The lower part of the member C holds driven spindle mechanism incorporating a the outer member 7) of a ball race, the inner vertical spindle supported by bearings and member 6 of which ball race is fixed to a 60 extending downwardly through an oil box or plug or spigot 79, coaxial with the spindle casing, the arrangement being such that, and threaded into the bottom wall of the 10 notwithstanding the absence of packing or box or casing A. Balls 6* between the race of a sealed joint, oil for lubrication of the members 6 and b afford a ball bearing. bearings and of the driving means is pre- The upper portion of the boss P may revented from escaping from the interior of volve in a ball race or in a phosphor-bronze the casing, While a self-lubricated neck or hearing as shown.

15 bearing'to receive the lower end of the spin- On the upper end of the boss P is a recess dle serves to render the live spindle rigid. engageable by a tooth on the clutch element The driving means within the b0 creasing 0*. The lifting or lowering ofthe clutch provides both a friction drive and a positive element C" effects the disengagement of the drive rendered effective by movement of a clutch tooth from the recess or the engage- 20 clutch member endwise of the spindle into ment of the tooth. in the recess and thus the engagement with a clutch member presented disengagement of the boss P from, or its by a driven element on the spindle. engagement with, the spindle Sp.

In the accompanying drawings which The clutch element C" is adapted to be illustrate the invention Fig. 1 is a part elelifted or lowered by operation of a bifur- 25 vation part vertical section showing clearly cated lever L, pivoted at one end on the casthe spindle and certain elements of the ing A'an-d provided at its opposite end with dofiing mechanism. Fig. 2 is a vertical sec- :1 thumbpiece T for manual operation. tion to a larger scale of the spindle and its Oil for lubrication contained in the casing driving mechanism. Fig. 3 is a detail view A which may be projected on to the ball 30 showing an alternative means of attachment race member 5 is thrown on to the outer of the fiyer to the spindle. member 6 of the ball race by centrifugal It is to be understood that the spindles are force and is thus prevented from escaping driven individually. from the casing A. To prevent the oil in As shown, gears such as G on the shaft the casing A from rising beyond the level 35 S, which revolves in ball bearings and penerequired, an overflow is provided in the castrates vertical side walls of the oil box or ing. The normal oil level is shown by the casing A, drive pinions such as P, each fixed chain dotted line inFi'g. 2, being below the to a boss P freely mounted on a hollow spinlower ball bearing 6", 71 79 dle Sp and operatively connected thereto by The fiyer F is attached to the spindle Sp a clutch element C slidable along the upper by a cone and screw as shown inv Fig. 2. A

portion of the spindle Sp, but connected to conduit A is formed in thespindle S77 and the spindle, as by key and slot, for rotation also in the top part of the flyer F.

therewith. The lower part of the boss P is To connect the yarn, a certain length is formed with a conical recess to mate with a unwound from the bobbin and passed coned friction member C fixed to the spindle through an eye at the flyer end, wound round Sp. Vhen the clutch element (1* is lifted the leg of the fiyer in the usual manner and out of engagement with the boss P, the fricpassed through the conduit A in the liyer 1 tion between the contacting conical surfaces top and spindle by means of a needle and of the boss P and the member C is sufiicient drawn up through the hollow portion of the to effect rotation of the spindle Sp,'unless spindle. It may then be tied to the other a given resistance is ofiered to the rotation portion of the yarn as in usual practice.

of the spindle. This resistance may be'im-' An alternative means of fixing the flyeri1 parted, if required, by screwing in the to the spindle is shown in Fig. 3. The conical sleeve of the flyer top is held in. position on the corresponding conical section of the spindle by means of the nut N The lower part of the spindle Sp, after doifing, is held rigidly in a neck or hearing N fixed in a litter plate Lp and provided at its lower end with a tube n containing oil, ensuring lubrication of the spindle Sp at each ascent of the lifter plate. The lower end of the spindle Sp may be slightly tapered to guide it in the necl; N after the doiiing operation.

What I claim is In overhead spindle driving mechanism for spinning, twisting and like frames, in combination, an oil casing, a Vertical spindle extending through said casin a hearing within said casing for supporting said spindle said bearing comprising an inner race oses/e member sustained by the bottom Wall of said casing, a co-operative outer race member and -o. Lair inner 

